Frontend engineer with 9+ years building user-facing products at SaaS and media scale-ups. Skilled in shipping end-to-end features from discovery and UX to production. Recent focus on AI features, product-led growth, onboarding, and design systems.

Stefano Chialà

Frontend engineer with 9+ years building user-facing products at SaaS and media scale-ups. Skilled in shipping end-to-end features from discovery and UX to production. Recent focus on AI features, product-led growth, onboarding, and design systems.

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Frontend engineer with 9+ years building user-facing products at SaaS and media scale-ups. Skilled in shipping end-to-end features from discovery and UX to production. Recent focus on AI features, product-led growth, onboarding, and design systems.

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Language

English
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Italian
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Swedish
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Work Experience

Frontend Developer at Product-Led Growth
August 1, 2022 - Present
Led frontend efforts for a product-led growth initiative, shipping an AI-powered Instant Booker and tracking user behavior to trigger instant meetings, driving lift in lead conversion. Built a Booking Flow app that improved meeting-booked conversion from ~53% to 65% and achieved a 98% crash-free rate with 0 critical bugs and 0 downtime. Launched a product signup flow from the website, reducing activation friction. Created an Original Research hub saving $36k/year in vendor costs and reusable for future editions. Delivered a new web onboarding marketplace guiding users from discovery to in-app dashboards. Developed a global React/TypeScript UI component library and modular server-rendered JS blocks, enabling large-scale CMS adoption.
Software Engineer at Accedo TV
January 1, 2021 - August 1, 2022
Delivered LG/Samsung Smart TV apps for VOD/live streaming, handling submissions & certificates. Integrated HLS/DASH players, DRM (Widevine/PlayReady), subtitles (VTT/TXML). Integrated analytics & ads SDKs (Comscore, Conviva, Youbora, IMA). Worked with Bloomberg, Hallmark, TVO and Cowboy Channel+.
Frontend Developer at Via Play Group
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021
Delivered Sport & TVOD features for ViaPlay Big Screens (Smart TVs, STBs, consoles). Took on data analysis/visualization, technical interviews, onboarding, Scrum Mastering, release coordination, and supported new market expansion.
Frontend Developer at Bannerflow
July 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Developed features for CMP/UI; delivered advanced banners for clients.
Developer at Potential Park
December 1, 2016 - July 1, 2018
Full-stack development of client reporting apps & internal tools (AngularJS/Node, MySQL/PostgreSQL). Integrated APIs (Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Mailchimp); dashboards with Highcharts.
Frontend Developer
August 1, 2022 - Present
Delivered AI-powered instant booking features, tracked user behavior to trigger meetings and lift lead conversion, driving product-led growth.
Software Engineer
January 1, 2021 - August 1, 2022
Delivered LG/Samsung Smart TV apps for VOD and live streaming; integrated HLS/DASH players and DRM, subtitles, analytics and ad SDKs; worked with media partners like Bloomberg and Hallmark.
Frontend Developer at Viaplay Group
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021
Shipped Sport & TVO OD features for Viaplay Big Screens (Smart TVs, STBs, consoles); integrated analytics, ads and streaming components.
Developer at Potentialpark
December 1, 2016 - July 1, 2018
Full-stack development of client reporting apps and internal tools (AngularJS/Node, MySQL/PostgreSQL); integrated APIs (Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Mailchimp); dashboards with Highcharts.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Computing Systems at Politecnico di Milano
January 11, 2030 - January 6, 2026
Master of Engineering in Communication & Society Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
January 11, 2030 - January 6, 2026
Bachelor of Engineering in Computing Systems at Politecnico di Milano
January 11, 2030 - January 6, 2026
Master of Engineering in Communication & Society Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
January 11, 2030 - January 6, 2026

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Telecommunications

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